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He stood far off shore until he ran out of the sou'east trades, fiddled around two days in light airs and then picked up the nor'east trades; drove her well into the north, hauled round and came romping up to Grays Harbor bar seventy-nine days from Cape Town. A bar tug, ranging down the coast, hooked on to him and snaked him in.
"Yes," said a youth, "I f'und one of 'em an' he told me the Hawk's luck was Jonahed this trip." "Where's the packet lyin'?" "About twelve mile sou'east near the edge of the Bank." Nat went to the wheel himself. "Up jib an' fores'l," he sung out, "and sway 'em flat! Mains'l and tops'ls after that! Raymond, overhaul the balloon, stays'l, and trys'l!
"Seven, allowing for wild steering," said the captain when he had stowed away his chronometer and returned to the deck. "Angel, we know we're going about sou'east by east, seven knots. There's practically no variation o' the compass in these seas, and that course'll take us clear of Cape St. Roque.
They hung dangling from the end of the long chain. "Trust it?" he said vaguely. "It's the real thing!" Uncle William's face assumed an air of explanation. "It's good as far as it goes. The' ain't anything the matter with it not anything you can lay your finger on not till you get over there, a little east by sou'east. Don't you see anything the matter over there?"
And, Nick added, with emphasis, "I reckons as how it'll be jest a screamer when she comes." "A storm, you mean?" "A howler. Allers does when the wind backs up that way into the sou'east. 'Sides, if so be ye air still sot on findin' out what makes that thunder up this ways, p'raps ye'll have the chanct to look into the same afore long, Peg."
"Timmie," said he, grinning, "dad's been wonderin'!" "Is he?" Timmie asked, assuming innocence. "Wonderin'?" "Wasn't you sayin' so, dad?" "Well," the skipper admitted, "havin' said so, I'll not gainsay it. I was wonderin' " "An' you knowin'," sighed Timmie, "that you're an obligin' man!" "Dad," Jacky demanded, "didn't the Lard kindly send a switch o' wind from the sou'east t' save you oncet?"
"I've just rounded the corner. Keep her sou'east, half south for a mile. I'll be here, then. I want to rig the log over the stern." The man answered, and Jenkins departed with the boat's patent log.
"Sou' by sou'east, sir," responded the other boy, frantically dancing before the window. "But she'll weather it." They each then wrested another shutter away, violently depositing them, as they ran to and fro, in a rack at the corner of the veranda.
His hosts made toward the door to see for themselves; the rain had in truth begun, a spring rain with great drops that fell heavily, under which the snow was already softening and melting. "The sou'east has taken hold," announced the elder Chapdelaine. "Now we can say that the winter is practically over."
"She's comin' right in on the stony point sou'east o' the bay," cried Captain Lane. Fernando started to his feet and said: "We must go to their rescue." At this Morgianna, who had been ministering to the wounded, entered and said: "Are they not enemies?" "Yes, but fellow-creatures, also. Those signal guns call out humanity, and the bravest are the most humane," said Fernando.
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